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1. Waitangi Tribunal - issue 58 of Te Manutukutuku [pdf, 675 KB]

   ...alienation of the geothermal resource from Mäori ownership and control, and seri- ous damage done to the resource, � the Crown’s negotiation of unfair and inappropriate agreements about ownership of lakes, fish- eries, and rivers, and serious environmental damage done to waterways, � the Crown’s mismanagement of development schemes, its fores- try leases, and other twentieth- century land issues, resulting in loss of Mäori land, or prevention of Mäori from using their...

2. [2019] NZEnvC 017 Cossens v Queenstown Lakes District Council [pdf, 4.5 MB]

   ...for the water supply. 6. The drinking water supply is to be monitored for compliance with the Drinking Water Standard for New Zealand 2005 (revised 2008), by the management group for the lots/lot owner, and the -results forwarded to the Principal: Environmental Health at Council. The Ministry of Health shall approve the laboratory carrying out the analysis. Should the water not meet the requirements of the Standard then the management group for the lots shall be responsible for the provi...

3. [2017] NZEnvC 038 Gravatt v Pierau [pdf, 547 KB]

   ...Unitary Plan operative in part; the cumulative effects of amplified music and of people and traffic adjoining a conservation zone would have negative impacts on rare and endangered avifauna during vulnerable breeding seasons; and that negative environmental effects would likely to be noxious and objectionable such as to warrant the making of an enforcement order. [3] The application was accompanied by an affidavit of Mr Gravatt with extensive attachments, the latter including the...

4. [2022] NZACC 58 – Large v ACC (7 April 2022) [pdf, 261 KB]

   ...Appeal was lodged. [29] The Corporation’s clinical advisory panel (“the CAP”) reviewed the claim and provided a report dated 5 August 2021. The CAP was comprised of four orthopaedic surgeons, a sports medicine specialist, an occupational and environmental medicine specialist, and a general surgeon. The CAP agreed with the previous opinions that the L4/5 disc bulge was a material contribution to Mr Large’s symptoms. The CAP noted that the mechanism of injury described by M...

5. [2022] NZACC 56 – Ajayi v ACC (5 April 2022) [pdf, 214 KB]

   ...evidence, the Court does not consider that Mr Brownlee’s mistaken reference to the nature of Mr Ajayi’s injury in 2014 has any bearing on Mr Brownlee’s advice. [57] Fourth, on 22 April 2020, Dr Austen, Urgent Care Adviser, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, advised that the covered accident in 2016 did not cause Mr Ajayi’s peroneal tendon subluxation pathology. This advice was in view of the MRI report in 2017 noting his tendons to be normal and the absence of any r...

6. [2021] NZEnvC 012 Davis v Gisborne District Council [pdf, 709 KB]

   ...the Harvry decision referred to by the Residents records that this can be a factor but should not be determinative).41 [16] The Council noted that this has been a difficult case, and the Court agreed that it was complex - legally, technically, environmentally, socially and practically.42 The Council does not consider it has misinterpreted clearly settled law or pursued 35 Residents' costs memorandum at [24]. 36 Residents' costs memorandum at [25]. 37 Council's costs...

7. 2021-04-20 McArthur Ridge - ORC PC7 - Opening Submissions [pdf, 251 KB]

   ...consideration under the Plan Change framework ; (c) The Plan Change does not recognise or provide for different types of water users and their efficiency of water use; (d) The methodologies in PC7 will result in a reduction in actual allocations, with no environmental basis for this approach; (e) The Plan Change takes a blanket approach to all of the expiring water permits, rather than applying a catchment specific approach; (f) The work done to date by water user groups to collec...

8. Tutt v Accident Compensation Corporation (Deemed Cover) [2023] NZACC 72 [pdf, 274 KB]

   ...acute disc herniation. [24] ACC’s Clinical Advisory Panel considered the appellant’s case in a report dated 20 July 2022. The Clinical Advisory Panel consisted of six orthopaedic surgeons, a sports medicine specialist and an occupation and environmental medicine specialist. [25] The CAP concluded that the appellant’s covered accidents, including those of 10 February 2020 and 31 August 2020 did not provide a causal link with the appellant’s lumbar disc deterioration and th...

9. Waitangi Tribunal - issue 57 of Te Manutukutuku [pdf, 571 KB]

   ...have been heard during the 27 weeks of hearing in the Hauraki inquiry district. Hearing of evidence was completed in November 2002 and the report is in the early stages of being drafted. cont inued over P o u t ü - t e - r a n g i 2 0 0 3 6 Environmental damage, access to fisheries, lack of consultation, and extensive land alienation were some of the issues presented in evi- dence by Te Atiawa during the hear- ings at Waikawa. On the site visit around Queen Charlotte Sound, ma...

10. Environment Court annual report 2014 [pdf, 282 KB]

    ...the business of the Court. E.49 6 | P a g e 1.4 The Court’s Jurisdiction The Environment Court is established by section 247 of the RMA as a Court of record. It is a specialist court that has jurisdiction over environmental and resource management matters. It can be characterised as follows: a Judge usually presides at sittings to hear and determine proceedings it is required by law to act judicially it hears contesting parties to the proceed...